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Title: Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons
Publisher: Salt Lake City : The Andrew Jenson History Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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SUMMERHAYS, Joseph William, a
prominent member of the Deseret
Sunday School Union, was born Jan.
15, 1847, at Pimlico, Middlesex, Eng-
land, the son of Caleb Summerhays
and Margaret Moore. His parents
joined the L. D. S. Church when he
was one year and 11 months old and
became members of the Westminster,
Chelsea and Wandsworth branches of
the London Conference successively.
In 1866, he emigrated to Utah, cross-
ing the Atlantic Ocean in the sailing
vessel "Caroline" which sailed from
London May 5, 1866, with 389 Saints
under the leadership of Samuel H.
Hill. The voyage lasted about five
weeks, as the ship did not arrive at
New York until June 11th. Thence
the company continued the journey
by railroad and steamboat to Wyo-
ming, a village situated on the Mis-
souri River, seven miles north of
Nebi-aska City. The emigrants made
this trip from New York principally
in box cars. For crossing the plains
Bro. Summerhays hired out as a team-
ster to Capt. Andrew H. Scott, who
then acted as Bishop of the Provo 2nd
Ward, and drove a team consisting of
three yoke of steers and an iron axle
wagon. Capt. Scott's train left the
Missouri River August 1, 1866, and
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arrived in Salt Lake City, Oct. 8, 1866.
Several severe snow storms were en-
countered on the latter part of the
journey, in one of which a number of
cattle perished; nearly thirty of the
emigrants died on the journey across
the plains. On his arrival in Provo,
Bro. Summerhays delivered his team
to the owner and spent his first winter
in Utah (1866-1867) in Provo. Later
he resided in Pleasant Grove, but
finally made his permanent home in
Salt Lake City. In 1868-1869 he as-
sisted in the construction of the Union
Pacific Railroad through Weber Can-
yon and afterwards became an em-
ployee of William Jennings in Salt
Lake City. Bro. Summerhays was
ordained an Elder on June 27, 1870,
and on the same day he married Mary
M. Parker in the Endowment House.
Subsequently he married three other
wives, namely, Mary C. Bishop, on
June 19, 1882, Sarah Berrett, on June 5,
1884, and Hilda Johnson, on Nov.

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 65.

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